Malise Cooper Dick; World Bank Economist

Malise Cooper Dick, 72, a transportation economist with the World Bank who also was an economics professor and a photographer, died June 10 of a heart attack at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. He lived in Greenbelt.

Mr. Dick, who formerly worked as an economist in the United Kingdom, joined the World Bank in 1972. As senior transport economist, he designed and completed projects involving railways and ports in West and East Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean until 1995, when he retired.

A consultant and adjunct professor, Mr. Dick taught international finance at the University of Oklahoma in 1998 and 1999 and at the University of Maryland from 1999 to 2005. He played a role in organizing a conference on world energy policy in the 21st century at the University of Maryland in 2002 and was affiliated with the college's National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education.

Mr. Dick also lectured on privatization and transport policies and their effect on greenhouse gases.

For 30 years, Mr. Dick was a member of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund's International Photographic Society. He served twice as its chairman and was on the executive committee. He was chairman of the nominating committee for the last five years. Many of his photographs received prizes and were exhibited at the group's annual meetings.

Mr. Dick was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and served in the Royal Air Force from 1954 to 1956. He received a mechanical engineering degree in 1960 from Carlisle Technical College in England and master's degrees in economics from Cambridge University in England in 1964 and Brown University in Rhode Island in 1965.

From 1960 to 1972 in the United Kingdom, he worked as a design draftsman at Rolls-Royce Ltd., a country economist for Unilever Ltd. and a principal economist for the National Ports Council.

Mr. Dick had lived in the Washington area since 1972 and was a member of the executive committee and treasurer of CHEARS, the Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society. He also tutored students at the Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Elementary in Adelphi as part of the Adelphi Friends/CHEARS Earth Squad Tutoring Program.

He was one of the organizers of the Green Man Festival, which included environmental films and an art exhibit, at the New Deal Cafe and community center in Greenbelt.

He also was a member of the Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability.

His marriage to Meryl Lusher ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Eugenia Kalnay of Greenbelt; and a stepson, Jorge Rivas of Minneapolis.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb